Category: P
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Pergonal
A drug that induces ovulation by action of FSH.
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Performance test
In intelligence testing, a nonverbal test; a test that requires no language, verbal test.
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Performance contract
In education, an agreement between schools and commercial educational agencies or teachers guaranteeing specified educational results.
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Performance-based education
Learning designed to demonstrate actual accomplishment rather than just knowing.
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Performance anxiety
An apprehension about sexual adequacy that produces anxiety resulting in an inadequate sexual performance.
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Performance
In psychology, pertaining to that which a child knows offered in response to a direct question. A way in which something works. The actual carrying out of an activity. The term occurs especially in connection with physician’s privileges, where the trend is to attempt to grant privileges, and to continue or terminate them, not only…
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Perennialism
An educational philosophy that holds that certain truths exist and are universal and unchanging.
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Per curiam
By the court. An opinion with no identification of the author.
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Percodan
A commercial preparation of oxycodone.
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Perceptual learning
The hypothesis that learning is a matter of developing perceptions or of seeing new relationships.